"We don't feel emotionally and mentally ready to go to Switzerland and shoot without Yash ji. You don't go to Switzerland without Yash Chopra. We could not shoot for it as Yash ji was unwell. After he passed away, Karan [Johar] said, 'Should I shoot it?' But Adi [Aditya Chopra] said, 'No we are not going to shoot it'.

"If the song is not being shot by Mr Yash Chopra in Switzerland, then even I don't want to shoot it. None of us wants to. The song will now be played in the background. We'll use some scenes from what Yash ji's already shot."

"Yash Chopra always released his films on Diwali because his ideology was that it's a festival of life and happiness," Khan explained. "Hope it's not seen in a wrong sense, but the fact that he'd been making films for the last 50 years, and just ten days after he made his last film, he passes away - I think in a strange sense is the happiest a filmmaker can be.

"We as people who've experienced him should celebrate what a wonderful and happy life he had. We shall carry forward the reason he made films for, and that was to celebrate life. We are going to have this huge premiere, Insha Allah, on the 12th [of November].

"To me it has become a little more than a film. That is the best way of giving a tribute or the best way to mourn for Yash Chopra's passing away and to celebrate the fact that he was a part of our lives."